FWIW, Montana rejected Real ID, and is full of pickup trucks and (VERY) round American women.
You'll have more luck raising cows, hay, and wheat than rabbits, but other than that, Second Captain, c'mon up. Stop by my bar. I'll be happy to buy you a beer, provided you don't mind Bud/Coors/Miller Light.
Redneck country? Youbetcha.
Mostly libertarians though they think they're republicans? You betcha.
Remember the time it fried her cat? And then you lied and said she never had a cat? Then why'd she have the litterbox, Bluesman? Why'd she have the litterbox?
Do I want a surgeon to have to look up where the sciatic nerve is mid-operation? Of course not.
Do I care if the same surgeon can remember his mother's phone number in mid-operation? Of course not.
Apples to oranges.
Do you have to look in an ORA book to remember when to go to/etc? Do you have to check your calendar to remember the exact date of Labor Day? I couldn't tell you exactly which date Thanksgiving falls on this year aside from "third Thursday of November", but I know where the hell passwd is.
I live in a small town (around 6,000 people) in the center of Montana. To find a city with more than 100,000 people, you have to travel at least 400 miles (leave the state, Boise is just under 700 miles by road). Our local economy is based on farms, ranches, and bars.
Yet high speed internet has been available here for at least the last 7 years.
Beyond the images in the article, I just did a google image search for "buck rogers pistol" and don't see anything significantly relevant to Han Solo's D-44... if anything, it reminds me just how little they changed the Mauser Broomhandle to turn it into a blaster.
Now if only our "libertarian" government would quit kowtowing to the influx of Californian cash, maybe we really CAN keep this state free...
We didn't get to vote on the open container law. We didn't get to vote on the smoking ban. They were pushed through by legislators catering to the new citizens in the Yellowstone Club. Just love it when people leave their state because they don't like what it's turning into, and the first thing they do when they get somewhere else is push to make it more like what they left.
It's already been addressed: files encoded with different codecs, bitrates, compression ratios, what-have-you look completely different, have vastly different checksums, and even if named exactly the same and with the exact same file size, would never be confused for each other by any algorithm that's comparing what's actually IN the files.
Because if there's one thing we've learned in Iraq, it's that irregular forces with small arms and improvised munitions could never resist the might of the US military.
None of my guns have ever hurt another person. They are as harmless to you in my hands as the aforementioned CD and DVD collections.
When you figure out how to get the guns away from the criminals, you let me know. Until then, I'll keep mine, and know that should the worst happen, I'll be prepared. You can throw your boxed set of Red Dwarf season 2 at the bad guys and hope they're fans.
>No, I'm not American, and don't really get this whole 'gun thing'.
Funny, I AM an American, and I don't really get people who dismiss it as "this whole 'gun thing'"...
I'm a hunter, recreational shooter, and collector. My gun collection is, to me, no different than, say, your CD or DVD collection, except that mine can be used to feed my family or protect their lives.
There's nothing illegal about firing a gun outside of hunting season, provided you don't do it "within the city limits of any city or within residential areas within urban growth boundaries at or in the direction of any person, building, structure or vehicle within the range of the weapon without having legal authority for such discharge" (from your cite).
I can drive less than four miles from home and shoot whenever I like without breaking any laws, any time of year, day or night.
The law you're referring to makes it illegal to fire a gun within city limits without proper legal cause (ie: self defense). Nothing in that law applies outside of developed areas, and there are exemptions available for places like gun ranges.
This is exactly why I hate cops! They're the ones who act like jackasses. It's right there in the video for all to see.
This is great. In a conversation about racial profiling, we have someone doing essentially the same thing right here.
Two cops in a video represent all cops to you, but it's wrong for hundreds of Muslim fundies killing people around the world to be representative of all Muslims.
Ooookay.
Just as the majority of Muslims do not support terror and the eradication of infidels, the majority of cops are good, honest, hard-working people.
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FWIW, Montana rejected Real ID, and is full of pickup trucks and (VERY) round American women.
You'll have more luck raising cows, hay, and wheat than rabbits, but other than that, Second Captain, c'mon up. Stop by my bar. I'll be happy to buy you a beer, provided you don't mind Bud/Coors/Miller Light.
Redneck country? Youbetcha.
Mostly libertarians though they think they're republicans? You betcha.
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Remember the time it fried her cat? And then you lied and said she never had a cat? Then why'd she have the litterbox, Bluesman? Why'd she have the litterbox?
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Tinfoil contact lenses sound REALLY painful and hard to see through.
(and to hell with the slashdot reply timer that punishes those of us that learned how to frickin TYPE)
Do I want a surgeon to have to look up where the sciatic nerve is mid-operation? Of course not.
Do I care if the same surgeon can remember his mother's phone number in mid-operation? Of course not.
Apples to oranges.
Do you have to look in an ORA book to remember when to go to
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You're welcome.
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Amazing.
I live in a small town (around 6,000 people) in the center of Montana. To find a city with more than 100,000 people, you have to travel at least 400 miles (leave the state, Boise is just under 700 miles by road). Our local economy is based on farms, ranches, and bars.
Yet high speed internet has been available here for at least the last 7 years.
Where in Indiana can't you get at least ISDN?
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This is high-definition. It has better resolution than the real world.
>Anyway, what's a Men's magazine doing producing fibre-optic monitor extenders?
Silly me, I was sitting here wondering if he meant the first Maxtor, Reloaded, or Revolution...
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I love this argument. "I don't have a car/truck/SUV, so I don't care! Go high gas prices! Fewer vehicles means my bicycle has more room!"
Ok, hope you don't mind paying more for.. well.. EVERYTHING.
How do you think your vegetables, milk, meat, toilet paper, and bread get to the store where you purchase it?
How about your DVDs, CDs, computer parts, or books?
Do you think the trucks that maintain your telephone and cable TV/internet lines run on happy thoughts and sweet dreams?
The price of gas affects the price of EVERYTHING. The price of gas in the US affects how much American goods cost you overseas.
Get over YOURself.
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So Michael Jackson doesn't need to pay for the big robot to roam around outside Vegas, he just needs a leaky pacemaker?
Won't address the lasers, but maybe if he can get a pedal powered propellor hat with LEDs on it...
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>Any game over a decade in the making is a sure winner!
Battlecruiser 3000AD ring any bells?
On the upside, you wouldn't have to pedal nearly as fast for a little tiny beanie propellor.
On the downside, you'd have to look down for people to see if it made a cool pattern.
On the unrealistic expectations side, if you could pedal really really fast and had a strong chin strap, you could fly around the room.
Mike did good work for the EFF.
And god help you if you took a contrary position on Austin chat systems back in the mid-80s. He verbally shredded all who opposed him.
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(Hey Mike. Long time. Sorry about throwing up in your bathroom sink at Glen's going away party 20ish years ago.)
Sounds like Loco Motion for the Intellivision, from 1983...
>Nobody would surrender (their lives) to Will Turner. ;)
Perhaps not, but lots of teenage girls would gladly give up their booty to him.
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Beyond the images in the article, I just did a google image search for "buck rogers pistol" and don't see anything significantly relevant to Han Solo's D-44... if anything, it reminds me just how little they changed the Mauser Broomhandle to turn it into a blaster.
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I love the comments that the lawyers didn't cause this - the law did.
WHO DO YOU THINK WRITES THE LAWS?
Look at the prior professions of your congressmen and women.
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Didn't figure we had too many Montanans on /. Huh.
Now if only our "libertarian" government would quit kowtowing to the influx of Californian cash, maybe we really CAN keep this state free...
We didn't get to vote on the open container law. We didn't get to vote on the smoking ban. They were pushed through by legislators catering to the new citizens in the Yellowstone Club. Just love it when people leave their state because they don't like what it's turning into, and the first thing they do when they get somewhere else is push to make it more like what they left.
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>Hah, I used to collect arrows by dodging them.
Guess that beats collecting arrows by NOT dodging them...
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It's already been addressed: files encoded with different codecs, bitrates, compression ratios, what-have-you look completely different, have vastly different checksums, and even if named exactly the same and with the exact same file size, would never be confused for each other by any algorithm that's comparing what's actually IN the files.
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Because if there's one thing we've learned in Iraq, it's that irregular forces with small arms and improvised munitions could never resist the might of the US military.
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None of my guns have ever hurt another person. They are as harmless to you in my hands as the aforementioned CD and DVD collections.
When you figure out how to get the guns away from the criminals, you let me know. Until then, I'll keep mine, and know that should the worst happen, I'll be prepared. You can throw your boxed set of Red Dwarf season 2 at the bad guys and hope they're fans.
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>No, I'm not American, and don't really get this whole 'gun thing'.
Funny, I AM an American, and I don't really get people who dismiss it as "this whole 'gun thing'"...
I'm a hunter, recreational shooter, and collector. My gun collection is, to me, no different than, say, your CD or DVD collection, except that mine can be used to feed my family or protect their lives.
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There's nothing illegal about firing a gun outside of hunting season, provided you don't do it "within the city limits of any city or within residential areas within urban growth boundaries at or in the direction of any person, building, structure or vehicle within the range of the weapon without having legal authority for such discharge" (from your cite).
I can drive less than four miles from home and shoot whenever I like without breaking any laws, any time of year, day or night.
The law you're referring to makes it illegal to fire a gun within city limits without proper legal cause (ie: self defense). Nothing in that law applies outside of developed areas, and there are exemptions available for places like gun ranges.
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This is exactly why I hate cops! They're the ones who act like jackasses. It's right there in the video for all to see.
This is great. In a conversation about racial profiling, we have someone doing essentially the same thing right here.
Two cops in a video represent all cops to you, but it's wrong for hundreds of Muslim fundies killing people around the world to be representative of all Muslims.
Ooookay.
Just as the majority of Muslims do not support terror and the eradication of infidels, the majority of cops are good, honest, hard-working people.
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